Text 728

Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin; now lost)
Museum no.
9750 (old no. ÄM 1493)
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of epitaph of Solomon, monk
Date
700–999
Notes
keleusis type
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 43; W: 24
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
9
Height of letters
not recorded
Description
Incomplete round-topped slab, with complete upper margin and a large part of both side margins preserved.
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete, but surface considerably damaged and illegible, especially in the lower part
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲛ̣ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ̣[---]
Transcription
"of the month [---]" (l. 8)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
brother (= monk) (ⲡⲉⲛ[ⲥⲟⲛ]): l. 5
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Source
Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 47
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Ghazali 47
Other editions
Revillout 1885, p. 33, no. 49; SB Kopt. 1 493
Other publications
Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 47; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Cramer 1949, p. 11 (basic description)
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